jake_h03 wrote:
For me, this season has shown we still need some serious improvement across the board. We don’t have enough putting in match winning performances. Most are doing their job, getting a pass mark, but we need more. We’re no longer a team full of kids so we can’t just expect that improvement to come naturally. I think we need the improvement to come from underneath. The young guys need opportunity to step up, like Port’s young players have done. It needs to be more about Dow, O’Brien, Stocker, TDK, Philp, Honey etc and less about Murphy, Simmo, Newnes
Good to see Honey get a game. From all reports he’s quick and hard at it. We need this kind of energy.
Dow has to come in. He’s exactly the sort of midfielder we’re missing. We’ve got a lot of one paced players around the ball, Cripps, Setterfield, Kennedy, Ed, even Murph is not explosive. Dow can win the hard ball but gives us some burst around the ball as well. His contested numbers were really impressive in his first season as an 18 year old. Time to give him a shot at that role again.
The other one for me is I’d drop Pitto for McKay and let TDK and Levi share the rucking duties. It seems harsh, Pittonet has been better than any of us could have hoped, but I don’t think he’s ever going to be a dominant ruckman. TDK has the potential to be Grundy, Gawn, Nic Nat level ruckman IMO. Last week I felt the game swung back in WC favour when Pit came back on and Tom was forced out of the ruck. I don’t think Pittonet offers enough up forward to be worth selection if TDK is going to be taking half the rucking duties, and Levi is more than capable of swapping in the ruck. Levi, TDK, McKay, and Pittonet seems too tall for my liking
So I’d go
IN McKay, Dow, Honey
OUT: Pitto, Martin, and one of Murph, Simmo, or Newnes
And FFS get SPS up the ground. On ball, wing, HFF, whatever, just stop wasting him in defence
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It's because we never pick top picks with 'x' factor. Our top picks are always safe. I know it's a big thing to get it right but we did it again last year.
We never pick a Kozzy Pickett type. We prefer a Kemp, a Walsh, a Dow, a Gibbs, a Murphy.
I'm sure Kemp qill be a gun but we really need a Hill/Cameron/Papley who can turn a game in 5 minutes. I think SPS is the closes we have taken in the draft but h is being wasted down back when he could be playing free footy upfield. Martin has the skills but we didn't pick him up in the draft.
Our game changer is Cripps but he isn't a goal kicker.
Nice to see another debutant in Honey this week.
The team is the third oldest in the comp on average but take out Simmo, Ed, MM and Eddie and the age drops a LOT.